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Sony has had a rough month and things seem to be showing any signs of letting up any time soon. Following attacks on its Playstation Network and online PC gaming branch, Sony Online Entertainment, the personal details of now more than 100 million users could have been compromised. Sony is now facing two potential lawsuits and is being grilled by multiple government agencies and officials. A report from Gamasutra explains that state officials are also seeking answers. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has subpoenaed Sony as part of a consumer protection inquiry over the security breach and is seeking more details about the intrusion and Sony's "representations made to customers."

Sony has declined to testify before congress this week following an epic fail in the company's security that could have potentially compromised the personal details of what now totals more than 100 million accounts. The Congressional Subcommittee dispatched a letter to Sony Chairman Kazuo Hirai, which asked the company to answer several questions related to the Playstation Network hacking, a list that was dispatched before it was discovered and announced that Sony's online gaming branch, Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), had also been compromised this week, adding another 24 million plus to the list of over 77 million accounts possibly compromised.

It appears that Sony's trouble continues today following the intrusion that took place almost two weeks ago that potentially compromised the personal details of millions of Playstation Network users. A quick visit to any of the Sony Online Entertainment websites and services for EverQuest II, DC Universe Online and other games in the developer's library reveals that SOE has taken the sites and services down following a discovered issue relating to the intrusion. What that issue is will be explained later, but for now, players are back in the dark.

We've contacted SOE for comment and will update you when we have more details.

Source: Station.com

Last week we reported that Playstation 3 DC Universe Online and Free Realms players were unable to get their MMOG fix due to an outage of the Playstation Network (PSN). We speculated at the time that the downtime might have been an attack against the network from the hacker activist group Anonymous, who has been targeting Sony since their lawsuit against the man that managed to jailbreak the PS3, George "GeoHot" Hotz. But according to AnonNews, the hacktivist group Anonymous is claiming that it had nothing to do with the recent PSN intrusion.